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Inspire

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to fill someone with the desire or ability to do or create something
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Stage 1 of 2
inspirare
Latin · ancient
"to breathe into"
to breathe into, from in- (into) and spirare (to breathe)
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Stage 2 of 2
inspire
English · 1300s
"to fill someone with the urge to create or act"
settled as the English word for filling someone with the urge to create or act
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